This early version of Sons and Lovers, Lawrence’s highly popular autobiographical novel, was not published until 2003. Amongst all the surviving early drafts of Lawrence’s works this is the most different from the final version; as he rewrote, Lawrence discarded many episodes, some of them stories from his childhood not recorded anywhere else.

Less polished than Sons and Lovers, but full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing, Paul Morel displays more humour and charm, more raw violence and nervous energy than his more famous later works.

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